Last word of the day!

n°44 - check

(part 6)

n°10 - Breakfast with scones, clotted cream & jam

Today, we celebrated my sisters birthday (hoera!) with a scones-and-cream-breakfast.
I made the dough for the scones yesterday (recipe: see below), baked the little bread/cookies this morning and we ate the hot scones for breakfast. mm.

Scones
500 gr self-raising flour (but i used lot more - just add if the dough is sticky)
110 gr butter
2,5 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
more or less 80 gr sugar + 1 little pack of vanilla sugar
200 ml milk
1 egg


Mix the dry ingredients (flour, sugar, baking powder, salt) with the butter. Then add the milk and egg. Knead the dough and make little rounds (2,5 cm high) out of it. 
In the oven - ready.


Clotted cream
100 gr mascarpone
125 gr cream

Long island ice tea: check!

a lot of alcohol mixed together makes a very good cocktail + a even better evening
leve long island ice tea!

New word of the day - part 5

Today i discovered the word kornak (a kind of elephant keeper)
(out of Jose Saramago's 'A viagem do elefante' - again my fathers suggestion :))

New word of the day (part 4)

my fathers suggestion. not so usable in everyday life, though..

Fridays new word

yesterday

on a almost-summer-evening-out, i learned this new word: 

New word of the day (part 2)

today i discovered 'ACRIBIE',
which sounds like a kind of insect,
but just means extreme accuracy.

we tried for a while,
but unfortunately, we didn't find a way to use it in a sentence yet.

Tajine with smoky chicken (n°4: check!!)

Randomly cooking: walnut pie

i invited some friends over for tonights random dinner (topic 12 from the list)
So: i closed my eyes - took a random cookbook on the shelf - opened it (the ikea-cookbook) on a random page, and read: walnotentaart (walnut pie). 

Ow. Pie for dinner? 

Rules are rules: i was obliged to prepare the pie this afternoon. It looks delicious.

Do we really need a proper dinner? 

Discovering new words

For the next 7 days, i will learn 7 new (Dutch) words.
Today, i found this interesting word on the internet.

The meaning is open for guesses.
(i'd explain, but i found out - the image is more beautiful without explanation)
And for the next 6 days: word suggestions are welcome!

Little sunday walk with dog/bear

note: the dog we took for a walk was more like a bear
(that's why there is fluffy hair)
and he took me on a walk.
nice sunday morning

and:
-1 !

Yesterday's mini drama

Bad blog day, yesterday.
I had to abort the 'portrait'-challenge because my camera refused to collaborate.
He only revealed 'error's, no pictures.
Mmm pfff, i had a lot of ideas for the portraits - they'll have to wait a few weeks.
According to the help center, it will take 5 weeks (!!) for reparation.
So, I'll replace the camera. And for today, I will draw.

Morning portraits - friday

The challenge for the next five days:
I will photograph myself five mornings in a row.
(Uhm... why did I want to do this challenge again?)
In the bathroom today.
(although we have a hot-water-problem with the shower, it was quite steamy. perfect.)

Roadtripping to Berlin

Actually, this accompanies the Berlin-post below. Last week, we drove to Berlin for 4 days.
I loved it.
And it didn't took us thát long to drive to Berlin and back. Peanuts :).
(Fortunately: the travel sickness medicine really works..)

guess where I spent my weekend...

Bloody friday

I wasn't really sure about it:
would i be swept off my feet afterwards?
It appeared that i worry too much: it took only 4 minutes. i didn't even have time to read my book.

i lost some blood and gained a bruise on my arm
but in 3 months i'll definitely do it again.

n° 47: check  (8 down, 42 challenges to go)